Microsoft Office XP Standard [OLD VERSION]
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Software Reviews of Microsoft Office XP Standard [OLD VERSION]
Customer Review: old interface better than new
Summary: 4 Stars
i strongly disliked the interface and the total re work of office 2007. i guess when u have an old comfortable pair of shoes. . . thats why i sought out this xp version. less complicatedCustomer Review: Office
Summary: 3 Stars
Well, actually I like Excel and hate Word. The other programs included I have little or no use for.I use Excel all the time for engineering calculations, including writing VBA macros to automate things that I can't do easily in the cells. It's very useful, like having a calculator that remembers everything you've done, writes it down, but allows you to change inputs and recalculate everything automatically. Unfortunately, there is a bug in the help files, so I can't get Visual Basic help anymore. The IT guys at work fixed the regular help but never could get the macro help to work again. Very annoying.
Word is terrible compared to WordPerfect. What I used to be able to do with a couple of keystrokes, now takes minutes of navigation thru menus and dialog boxes. Outline formatting, numbered lists, etc. are especially frustrating in Word because nothing is obvious. You shouldn't have to get a college degree in word processing in order to learn to write a specification and get the formatting correct. One annoyance is that paragraph formatting is hidden in a selectable little space at the end of the paragraph, so if you try to delete the last few words by hitting shift-end and delete, you will delete numbering, formatting, etc. of that paragraph. Also, the thesaurus that came with WordPerfect was much better.
In general, Microsoft Office tries to be everything for every possible user, automates many tasks to do things that it thinks I want to do even though I don't, and makes it hard to figure out how to undo them.
I am using WordPerfect wherever possible and trying StarOffice.
Customer Review: Thank goodness I get a university discount
Summary: 4 Stars
When I saw the cost of this, my jaw dropped. I didn't think it would cost so much for Word, PowerPoint, FrontPage and Excel.I went to the university bookstore at my school to see if I could get any kind of discount on it. Thank goodness Indiana University has a contract with Microsoft!
About the program now that I've complained about the cost enough...
WORD
This is the program I use the most because for being a word processing program, it is very versatile. I can write term papers and what not with it, but I can also credit news letters complete with graphics. I have also used it to create invoices with neat graphics.
FRONTPAGE
I know HTML (one of the languages webpage makers write webpages in), so I pretty much only use this program when I'm trying out something new, like frams. I have also used it to figure out HTML codes for colors, frames, and tables. I had a college instructor who used it to do her entire webpage and it looked pretty good.
EXCEL
I used Excel to keep track of the money I was spending on gas for 6 months, how many miles I was traveling, where I was traveling, and the cost of gas. I know it sounds like of nerdy, but it really helped me save some money on gas, knowing exactly where to stop when I was on a trip. I also has how many miles I was putting on my car in that 6 months (10,000+ miles), which explained the wear and tear.
POWERPOINT
I am just beginning to learn this. I didn't realize what a valuable program PowerPoint was until people in some of my college classes gave presentations with it. Man, my poster board presentation was nothing compared to theirs. It is actually a pretty easy program to learn, but the 'little extras' like the animation and extra graphics can take a bit of time.
OUTLOOK
I use this program to check my school e-mail because I have AOL at home. I like not having to go to the university's website, navigating my way to the mail page, signing it, and going through at least one more link, just to get to my e-mail. This program goes straight to my mailbox with no links, no navigating.
ACCESS
When I tried to use access to create a database of my CDs, I had a lot of problems. It is probably the only program in this software suite that I think is a total waste of disc space. I have had to use it before, but for me, I can just use Excel to make lists, it is much easier to use.
I am really glad that I have Microsoft Office. It has made school a lot easier. I can e-mail documents to my school account, download them, and know they will work with the school software. That saves me from having to reformat the assignment whenever I want to work on it at school.
Customer Review: Dont' do it!
Summary: 1 Stars
This is an extremely disappointing product. When I bought a new computer with Windows XP loaded, I was forced to upgrade my previous version of Office to restore all of the functionality. They have added so many 'features' that many things that used to be simple are nearly impossible. It is also extremely intrusive (guessing what you're trying to do), often wrong, and very hard to dissuade. Something as simple as a numbered list with sub-bullets in Word is an exercise in frustration. Creating web pages with Word that used to take me 15 minutes or so are now multi-hour curse-a-thons.Unless your hand is forced, you'll be much happier with the earlier versions of MS Office.
Customer Review: Microsoft Office XP small office edition
Summary: 5 Stars
I recently purchased the above item from "Fun2sell" using Amazon.com.I was most impressed not only with the product but the integrity of the seller,Patrick.
The product was excellent,the service fast,the seller professional and courteous.
I would not hesitate to use your service again.
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Diane Smith